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The Costa Rican Tourist Board has finished six |
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The Minister signed along with Ligia Castro, director of the National Authority for the Environment (Anam), an agreement to formalize the creation of a bi-national commission of the PILA, forest existing as such 30 years ago.
Both functionaries coincided that coordinated work will give better results for the goal of protecting the park, with 193 thousand hectares on the Costa Rican side and 207 thousand hectares in the sector of Panama, divided by the borderline.
The PILA was declared La Amistad Biosphere Reserve in 1982 by the United Nations for Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) and in 1983 was included as a World Heritage Site, for its ample biodiversity.
This "ecological region" is considered a biological bridge between North and South America, because there are species which are nowhere else in the world, indicated Rodríguez Echandi.
On the park and its surrounding areas live over 30 thousand people, the majority of them are poor indigenous people.
"It is not with deforestation and farm ranching that development will reach this area, but through the intelligent use of biodiversity as well as tourism and ecotourism", proposed Rodríguez Echandi.
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